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Counter-example: http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2009/11/the_backstory_on_carecom_sitte.html http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco

• ianhowlett 15y ago
  Perhaps not quite a like-for-like case though, this one looks more like a detailed forensic "open the books" examination, rather than a chat over coffee. I'm sure there are some cases where ideas do get stolen and made successful (a bit of Googling quickly turns up Steve Blank's experience on this), but I think these examples are probably rare enough to make them noteworthy.